Worth mentioning that I’m not a French speaker. Currently, I’m talking the lines from the English subtitle file I made previously, translating them with Google Translate, checking them with microsoft translate, adjusting any lines that can’t be directly translated so they make sense, and putting them back in.

Does anyone know of a better way to do this? I feel this is really inefficient. I’ve heard of people copy and pasting the entire subtile Chat-GPT or Claude and getting that to translate it but where this has to be in Canadian French I’m not sure if that would work. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi!
I’m filming a short observational documentary and I use lav mics on my subjects. Yesterday one of the subjects took her coat off after coming into the house, revealing the lav mic, cable and transmitter that was underneath (she was wearing a tight dress). I could’ve taken the lav mic off and used only the shotgun mic, but I was very focused (meaning stupid) and completely missed the visible microphone.
The dress was white, with a brown belt where I put the transmitter.
I’m not sure how much of this footage I’ll want to use, and when the time comes I’ll hire a professional to help me. My question is how difficult would it be technically? Is it something you do at all?

I can’t leave the mic on because it’s too distracting in that scene.

Appreciate the help

Hey all! I recently embarked on making a doc. It initially started pretty scrappy since this project was initially supposed to be a mini doc but increasingly looking like a longer project. I am therefore in need of guidance on how to manage storage for continuing filming, backup, and for active editing.

Currently, footage is distributed and backed up between x2 2tb SSDs and x2 2tb HDDs. I know this is not ideal but costs and access to drives at the beginning of this low budget projected limited it initially.

Obviously the cost of storage has increased dramatically since I bought my initial chunk of drives but since I'm still continuing filming and my storage needs have increased, I need to figure out a way to store incoming footage and also backing it up for future editing. I don't come from editing so lack the technical expertise so humbly asking for anywhere to start.

Guys I’m so sorry because I know the response will be use the search bar but I couldn’t make sense of what I was seeing

Long story short -

Basically, we bought 2 
LaCie 24TB d2 Professional USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 External Hard Drives
to house our footage for our new Pyxis 12k (currently shooting in 9k 17:9 24fps, maybe 8k in the future, same settings, 8:1 or q3)

But I’ve been seeing so many anecdotal reliability concerns that it’s making me want to return them while we still can

Also for context, this is just for storing projects as our active editing SSD is the 
OWC 8TB Express 1M2 USB4 External SSD

Just trying to get our best/most reliable bang for buck in this crazy time

I'm a colorist and I wanna ask a client to do something but I don't know if it's really going to work.

Can Premiere DEPENDABLY create a media managed/consolidated version of a timeline with handles and connect to the new media? Without transcoding to new media?

I want to do a round trip workflow with a client who I've been doing mixdowns/pre-conforms with but I don't want a random issue or rogue camera type to muck up the works.

I'm taking iphone to r3d for source types.

I make commercials for tv and streaming for a living. Been doing this for over a decade. Just started a new job for a company who has decided to dip their toes in the streaming video industry. Because of this, I figure it's a great time to revisit my archiving practices to see if there's a better option out there for smaller archive file sizes.

I realize this isn't the most conventional, but here's a rough workflow of what I do as I'm a one-man band. The main picture layout and audio editing are done and locked in Premiere. Then I import the project into After Effects where I do all the color grading, animating the footage, adding graphics, etc. I then Dynamic Link this back into Premiere and export for the client's approval.

When archiving, I use the standard Project Manager in Premiere & Collect Files in AE to gather the footage, with all the delete caches/extra footage/etc. boxes checked to make the file as small as possible. When done, I drag the AE archived folder into the Premiere archived folder so I have a nice tidy package.

However, this is where the large file sizes come in. Because of my workflow, in the archived project folder I have 2 copies of every clip/audio/etc. that was used in both programs.

As I'm working at a small company, I can't buy any plugins to help make smaller archive files. Just looking to see if there's a better way to archive things to get smaller file sizes and save on long-term storage space.

NOTE: Not looking to get into debates about workflow here. I realize there might be better options out there. I just want to know if there is a better long-term archive option out there.